Wikipedia has selected 22 students/professionals from the city as campus ambassadors for its India Education Program, an initiative aimed at using the online user-generated encyclopaedia as a learning tool. These ambassadors — trained at the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research last month and now been assigned colleges — will interact with students and teachers, urging and teaching them to use Wikipedia as a medium of sharing knowledge.
Wikipedia had, a few months ago, announced Pune as the first city outside the US for implementation of the programme.
“It is basically a voluntary initiative and the reason I joined the India Education Program is because it is an opportunity to share knowledge on a global platform. For instance, in the US, even small things such as streets are on Wikipedia and that is how people learn about them. In India, where we have so much of diversity and knowledge to share with the world, what needs to be taught is to put the knowledge on Wikipedia and share it with the world,” says Abhishek Suryawanshi, 20, pharmacy student and campus ambassador for SNDT University.
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